ESSA Newsletter

Summer is just around the corner, and as we wrap up the school year, it’s a great time to tie up loose ends and prepare for what’s ahead. In this June edition of our ESSA newsletter, you’ll find important updates, end-of-year reminders, and a few planning tips to help you head into summer with confidence. As always, we’re here to support you every step of the way!

- Tami Knight, Mercedez Rassi, and Monica Diaz

www.esc15.net/titlei

We are off to a great start with our ESSA contracting districts meetings!

If you're one of our amazing ESSA Support Contracting districts, and you have not yet signed up for a meeting, please do so as soon as possible. You may use the links below to sign up for a meeting date/time to complete your ESSA Consolidated Grant application.

First step: check this list to see which one of us supports your district!

Then, sign up for a date/time to meet with your ESSA Support contact via Zoom!

Tami's District Sign Ups

Mercedez' District Sign Ups

The SRSA Application window is open (and due 6/13)!

On May 14, the primary contact for your district received an email from no-reply.survey@max.gov that contains a unique hyperlink to the SRSA application. That email may be forwarded to another designee in your LEA, if needed. The SRSA application is due Friday, June 13!

Are you wondering who your primary contact is? Click here and see columns AC/AD. This spreadsheet provides your anticipated allocation and has been filtered to only include Region 15 (and a couple of our contracting districts). Review the USDE spreadsheet if you are not one of our schools (beware - it's a very big spreadsheet which sometimes slows down my computer!)

Mini-lesson About Title V (RLIS/SRSA):

There are two types of grants available under Title V for small, rural schools. Your district is eligible for 1) one of the programs, 2) both of the programs, or 3) neither of the programs. If you are dual eligible, you must choose which grant to apply for.

• RLIS: If you choose to apply to RLIS, no action is currently required. We will send out more information as soon as the RLIS grant application becomes available in eGrants.

• SRSA: If you decide to apply for SRSA, the primary contact (see spreadsheet) at each SRSA-eligible LEA received a link to apply for the grant from no-reply.survey@connect.gov on 5/14.

Just a reminder - the changes to UGG and EDGAR go into effect on July 1.

TEA federal monitoring has said it will issue findings with no questioned costs this year for findings solely related to the changes implemented early by this new USDE notice and LEAs must retain this letter as documentation for your own auditor in case of future findings.

TEMPLATE - as a reminder, Region 15 purchased a UGG/EDGAR manual template for Region 15 LEAs last summer from the BruMan Group. You should have received a copy of this from Mercedez or Tami. Let us know if you need us to send it again.

Final amounts for programs in the 2024–2025 Title V, Part B Rural and Low-Income School Program and ESSA Consolidated Federal Grant Application are became available last month on the Entitlements page.

Grantees must start an amendment to their applications in eGrants to budget their final amounts, 2023–2024 carryover amounts, and any applicable reallocation amounts.

The deadline to submit an amendment for RLIS is 5:00 PM. Central Time, June 2, 2025 and for the ESSA Consolidated Application is 5:00 p.m. Central Time, June 3, 2025.

*** If you are one of our ESSA Support Contracting Tami or Mercedez have reached out to you to regarding these amendments and they're most likely underway!

As part of the ESSA post-award compliance review, TEA will select a 25% random sample of districts to submit documentation supporting two items:

1. Homeless Reservation Worksheet - documentation to support the amount included for your 25-26 Homeless Reservation (line 2 on the ESSA Application PS3101 schedule)
2. Title II and Title III SNS Professional Development Worksheet - documentation regarding the funds used for district PD for these programs.

For more information, please see the GovDelivery sent May 16. The LEAs who were selected have been notified.

TEA has provided a worksheet for each of these items (though you may use your own tool, if you prefer). Training for both worksheets will be conducted on June 10.

• June 10 @ 10:30-11:30 - Title I Homeless Reservation Worksheet & Post-Award Review Training (registration link)
• June 10 @ 12:30-1:30 - Title II SNS Prof Development Worksheet Intro (registration link)
• June 10 @ 1:45-2:45 - Title III SNS Prof Development Worksheet Intro (registration link)

In order to help schools implement compliant programs, TEA has published frequently asked questions for various program areas.

ESSA:

• Title I-A FAQ (06/23)
• Title I-D FAQ (11/22)
• Title II-A FAQ (09/24)
• Title IV-A FAQ (07/24)
• ESSA Private Nonprofit Equitable Services (08/24)

All of our resources have been updated for the 24-25 school year! Click the items below to download!

Be sure to carefully review and address each task that is relevant to your district. If you aren't sure, reach out to Tami, Mercedez or Monica and we can help!

TEA's Federal Program Compliance Division is hosting a few trainings on June 10 (three of these are duplicates from above):

• June 10 @ 9:00-12:00 - 2025-26 Title I Within-LEA Allocations & SC5000 Training (registration link)
• June 10 @ 10:30-11:30 - Title I Homeless Reservation Worksheet & Post-Award Review Training (registration link)

• June 10 @ 12:30-1:30 - Title II SNS Prof Development Worksheet Intro (registration link)
• June 10 @ 1:45-2:45 - Title III SNS Prof Development Worksheet Intro (registration link)

Our 2025-2026 ESSA Workshops have also been tentatively scheduled. Please note that these dates are subject to change! We often receive notice of trainings we are required to attend after we create our PD schedule. We do our best to communicate changes promptly and we appreciate your understanding!

Join us for our Federal Programs Coffee Chats! These are very informal Zoom meetings where participants log in, hear a few updates, and ask questions. Click the picture below to access the flyer and a live link to our Zoom meeting.

JUNE- Use evaluation data to update program and documents!!!

Parent Day will be on October 17, 2025, at the Waco Convention Center—an exciting event created just for parents and caregivers! Parents will walk away with practical tips, valuable resources, and fresh inspiration to help them thrive at home and in school life.

Date: Thursday, June 19 | Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Audience: Educators and staff who work with families
Cost: Free for Region 15 districts
Details: See attached flyer or register here

The Parent and Family Engagement 4th Quarter of "The Family Learning Connection" newsletter is now available on their website here and on their Smore page here, please share it with your title-I parents.

This newsletter covers a range of topics, including the summer meal program, Parent Day, sun & water safety, college prep, If there is a certain topic or information you would like to see in future newsletters, please let me know and I will share it out to them.

Is there anything we can do to help you with your ESSA programs? Please let us know if there is anything we can do for you. Our contact information is below.

Email: federalprograms@esc15.net
Website: www.esc15.net/titlei
Location: 612 South Irene Street, San Angelo, TX, USA
Phone: 325-658-6571
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Region15ESC
Twitter: @Region15ESC